Position of max value of each column in a matrix

I have several large MxN matrices that I need to find the POSITION (specifically the y value or row is more important) of the max value of EACH column in the matrix. So for instance if A = [1,4,9; 2,8,7; 3,4,5],then the script would return m = [3,2,1] and n = [1,2,3], where m is the row and n is the column.
I can find the maximum number and its position in the matrix, I can find the maximum number and position in a particular column, but I can't seem to automate it to find and store the values for each column.
I tried a couple different things, and I thought I had it with this:
for i = 1:S %S is the the # of columns
[num] = max(A(:,i));
[m,n] = ind2sub(size(A), find(A==num));
end
but this only returns the coordinates for the last column. So am I missing something obvious here? Is here anything better? Thanks for any input

Answers (1)

A = [1,4,9; 2,8,7; 3,4,5];
[~,ii]=max(A);
m=ii
n=1:size(A,2)

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